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Bog off Bergdorf – you’re just not worth it.

‘Tarring any race with one brush is wrong’

That’s the message cosmetics giant L’Oreal quite rightly delivered to their first-ever transgender model, Munroe Bergdorf, by sacking her after she said that all white people are racist in a Facebook post.

Being a member of a minority doesn’t give Miss Munroe free reign to insult a large percentage of the population.

Predictably though, the right-on brigade haven’t leapt to the defence of the many decent and innocent people Munroe attacked. In their universe, it’s Munroe who is the victim.

Bergdorf is proof that diversity has progressed

Within an hour, the hair-shirt brigade was calling for a boycott of L’Oreal products, with Bergdorf as their new poster girl.

As a transgender woman, I sympathise to a degree. Undoubtedly, many areas of society remain predominantly white and straight – but I simply don’t buy the hell on Earth line Bergdorf is painting.

Things have progressed in recent years, as Bergdorf’s deal with L’Oreal proves. She was clearly willing to exploit her transgender status to progress her career, and good luck to her. But please, Munroe, don’t try and play the minorities card when YOU are the one in the wrong.

It must be tough having an evil famous make-up range with lots of white employees and customers force-feeding you large cheques. Not to mention the hassle of having to fly around the world and have people take nice photos of you.

Tarring any race with one brush is wrong. Just as Walkers would dump Gary Lineker if he insulted crisp eaters, L’Oreal decided to sever ties with Bergdorf for opening her big gob.

Racism isn’t just for white people

Bergdorf sees herself as a martyr who has dared to open a debate on endemic white racism, saying in a statement that “racism may be a jagged pill to swallow, but I suggest you force it down quickly if you want to be part of the solution”. Give it a rest, love. You’re hardly Martin Luther King. This isn’t an attack on civil rights. Or a backward step for equality. It’s business.

The most nauseating thing about this whole episode for me isn’t Bergdorf’s nasty labelling of all white people. It’s the knee-jerk manner in which some transgender people have flocked like sheep to Bergdorf’s defence. Even white trans people – individuals who she sees as being just a few steps away from being the sort who might gather in Charlottesville for a rally. Why stick up for her? She’s the very thing that she’s protesting about.

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